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Excess deaths continue

Dr. John Campbell · Youtube · 19 HN points · 1 HN comments
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Deaths from cardiovascular disease show a significant excess

Epidemiologist Veena Raleigh, The King’s Fund

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/29/disastrous-legacy-left-lockdown-non-covid-excess-deaths-overtake/

Food writer dies aged 49

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/02/julie-powell-food-writer-and-blogger-behind-julie-julia-dies-aged-49

Cardiac arrest caused by heart arrhythmia

Olivebridge, upstate New York, 26 October, 2022

Survived by her husband, brother and parents

Throughout October

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths

An average of 1,564 extra deaths per week

Throughout 2020 it was 315

Throughout 2021 it was 1,322

24,440 non covid deaths since May, 2022

More on the proximal causes

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYmUwNmFhMjYtNGZhYS00NDk2LWFlMTAtOTg0OGNhNmFiNGM0IiwidCI6ImVlNGUxNDk5LTRhMzUtNGIyZS1hZDQ3LTVmM2NmOWRlODY2NiIsImMiOjh9

23 March, 2020 (first UK lockdown)

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=nation&areaName=England

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending21october2022

Deaths registered, UK, week ending 21 October 2022

13,463

15.7% above the five-year average = 1,822 excess deaths

1,379 in week up to 23 March, 2020

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/29/disastrous-legacy-left-lockdown-non-covid-excess-deaths-overtake/

All age groups

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYmUwNmFhMjYtNGZhYS00NDk2LWFlMTAtOTg0OGNhNmFiNGM0IiwidCI6ImVlNGUxNDk5LTRhMzUtNGIyZS1hZDQ3LTVmM2NmOWRlODY2NiIsImMiOjh9

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Amitava Banerjee, clinical data science, consultant cardiologist, Institute of Health Informatics, University College London

We should never ever have had a pandemic preparedness team that did not consider the indirect and long-term effects.

We focussed on the direct effects of excess deaths from covid,

but from the beginning it’s likely the indirect effects will lead to more deaths,

and more morbidity and more economic impacts than Covid deaths itself

What I see is still a focus on the direct effects of Covid

Nobody who is in charge of the NHS, or any of the new health secretaries, are making any noises about it
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Nov 28, 2022 · halfjoking on [Missing Story]
>So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.

I'm one of those people.

I didn't want the vaccine after having long covid, because I believed natural immunity was much better than training my immune system on an earlier version of the virus. I was right.[1] Not only that - but unvaccinated were shown to have the same viral load even if they did get infected.[2]

So why are you blaming the unvaccinated? Right now there are more excess deaths than any time during the pandemic.[3] Even people who were provaxx are questioning why it's happening now.[4] If the vaxx was so great less people should be dying or was that not the point?

[1] https://brownstone.org/articles/how-the-cdc-buries-the-truth... [2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... [3] https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/159384008954467942... [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZJfVR9-wo

archagon
What do you mean by "during the pandemic"?
thinkmcfly
Do you have a favorite vaccine? If you had to get 1
halfjoking
BCG vaccine isn't a covid vaccine, but it works better than any genetic shot IMO.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/tb-drug-vs-covid

thinkmcfly
If you had to get a covid vaccine which would you pick
caeril
> So why are you blaming the unvaccinated?

Because the media did. Uncritically parroting what the media claims is a tried-and-true path to social acceptability.

Noting that the vaccines are non-sterilizing, and that their transmission attenuation was at best 15%, was a great way to get uninvited to the "right" kind of parties with the "right" kind of people.

Truth doesn't stand a chance against social conformity pressure, and it never has.

taolegal
Same here, I handled covid fine, a full 2 years after it all started. Was 4 days of feeling lame with fever. Before I didn't take many precautions, stopped masking after it was obvious that the spread was mostly seasonal and cloth masks had no evidence behind them.

Now I've got an immune response based on the complete virus, rather than a no-longer-existing subunit of a single protein. I expect I'll fare better than the immune chaos of infinite boosters.

People at risk should take precautions of isolating, otherwise it's time to move on with life.

Nov 02, 2022 · 19 points, 6 comments · submitted by noxer
mxkopy
I think if our representatives started trying to solve this problem, they'd find themselves concerned with the general well-being of people. I.e. it's probably not going to happen
nigrioid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7eyQ8E4PS8
hitpointdrew
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blumomo
How long until this video will be removed?
daVe23hu
or be marked as "flagged"
noxer
He got a strike before and is now particularly cautious with the YouTube guidelines. He repeatedly reads the guidelines out on the videos itself.

Not without a lack of British humor. Hes also very talented in saying things in extended pauses.

Here is an example: https://youtu.be/wj4rE0LrpR0?t=436 7:16

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